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What does pedestal mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word pedestal? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. (architecture) The base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp.
  2. (figuratively) A place of reverence or honor.
  3. (rail transport) A casting secured to the frame of a truck of a railcar and forming a jaw for holding a journal box.
  4. (machining) A pillow block; a low housing.
  5. (bridge building) An iron socket, or support, for the foot of a brace at the end of a truss where it rests on a pier.
  6. (steam heating) a pedestal coil, group of connected straight pipes arranged side by side and one above another, used in a radiator.
Verb
  1. To set or support on (or as if on) a pedestal.
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